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Now in its 25th year, Arizona Disabled Sports offers people with developmental and physical disabilities the opportunity to play and compete at the highest levels in sports such as basketball, floor hockey, kayaking, swimming, track and power soccer.

Two young boys grip their handlebars as they peddle a furious pace of 20 mph, breathlessly arguing who will win the race. One furrows his brow as his older brother stands behind him and yells, “Go faster!”

Arizona’s tech and innovation sectors are taking off, with some industry watchers dubbing the Phoenix metro area the “Silicon Desert” for its surge in local entrepreneurial startups and national tech companies expanding here.

Marty Tenenbaum was working as a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur in northern California in 1998 when he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, a type of malignant skin cancer that often spreads to other parts of the body.

Finding stable and affordable health care insurance remains a struggle for working poor Arizona families who make too much to qualify for the state’s Medicaid program, but too little to afford private insurance.

From 2002 to 2011, Arizona bioscience sector played a major role in boosting the state’s economic development. Jobs increased by 45 percent, adding more than 30,700 to the market and sweeping the new industry into Arizona like a wave.

Millennials’ preferences for getting around have facilitated the end of the “driving boom” and regional transportation planners will have to adjust to account for this new reality, according to a recent report.

The Federal Highway Administration’s approval of the South Mountain Freeway project last month elicited reactions of frustration, hope and even indifference by some of those affected by the $1.9 billion transportation project.

Should he stay or should he go? Now in its 25th year, Arizona Disabled Sports offers people with developmental and physical disabilities the opportunity to play and compete at the highest levels in sports such as basketball, floor hockey, kayaking, swimming, track and power soccer.November 19, 2018 , 4:36 pm